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Technical Specs

Blu-ray
BD-50 Dual-Layer Disc

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1080p/AVC MPEG-4

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1.78:1

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LPCM Audio 2.0 48 kHz ~1536 kbps 16-bit

Information:
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Title: Sympathy for the Devil
Year: 1968
Runtime:
100 mins
Votes: 1,117 votes
Rating: 6.3
All Genres: Documentary, Music, IMDb Documentary section
Tagline:
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writing By: Jean-Luc Godard

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Description:
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. Godard's documentation of late 1960's western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of the media, the mediated image, A growing technocratic society, Womens Liberation, the May revolt in France and the power of language. Cutting between 3 major scenes, including the Rolling Stones in the studio, the film is visually intercut with Eve Democracy (Wiazemsky) using graffiti which amalgamates organisations, corporations and ideologies. Godard also examines the role of the revolutionary within western culture. Although he believes western culture needs to be destroyed, it can only be done so by the rejection of intellectualisation. "There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual" Written by {gary.elshaw@vuw.ac.nz}
. In the 60's, having as the background the rehearsal and recording of "Sympathy for the Devil" in the classic album "Beggar's Banquet" by the revolutionary bad boy Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and Brian Jones - plus Marianne Faithful, Godard discloses other contemporary revolutionary and ideological movements - the Black Power through the Black Panthers, the feminism, the communism, the fascism - entwined with the reading of a cheap pulp political novel divided in the chapters: "The Stones Rolling; "Outside Black Novel"; "Sight and Sound"; "All About Eve"; "The Heart of Occident"; "Inside Black Syntax"; and, "Under the Stones the Beach". Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Cast:
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. Sean Lynch as Commentary (voice)
. Mick Jagger as Himself - The Rolling Stones
. Brian Jones as Himself - The Rolling Stones
. Keith Richards as Himself - The Rolling Stones (as Keith Richard)
. Charlie Watts as Himself - The Rolling Stones